MY FABULOUS LIFE AT THE BARN
One of Hollywood’s Most Significant Landmarks Still Stands In a city where they think nothing of knocking down Pickfair, bulldozing the Garden of Allah and destroying the streamline...
Author: Mike Szymanski
Mike Szymanski is a journalist, writer, activist and bisexual, living with Multiple Sclerosis and Dachshunds in Hollywood. He writes a regular column at Medium. He can be contacted at mikeszy@aol.com.
OSCAR TIME FOR LUPITA NYONG’O
Can ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Break Box Office and Awards Expectations? I’ll Bet it Will Review by Mike Szymanski OK, let the Oscar campaign begin right now for Lupita Nyong’o for her work in...
Is Pickleball a Sport? Seriously?
Meet the Man Who’s Ruining the Sport of French Open Champion Carlos Alcaraz Hey, that's Sandra Bullock's son out there playing soccer with your kids. Oh, and those are Sharon Stone's kids on the...
Bored on a Wednesday Morning?
How about Attending the Goofiest Breakfasts You’ll Ever Have Who does anything interesting on Hump Day? How about singing, exercising, telling silly jokes, having a hearty breakfast, and...
LA Black History from the Dunbar Hotel
Joe Louis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and Much More See that house across the street? It may not look so fancy, but it may turn out that the people who built that also built the hotel down...
The Adventures of the RED WRTR
When You Could Drive Behind the HOLLYWOOD Sign Nothing more than your car is a status symbol in Hollywood. No one asks what you do, or what are you wearing, as much as “What kind of car do you...
How I Learned My Dog Can Read
Doing Yoga at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Only while ‘Living in Hollywood’ can you attend a memorial service for a friend at a movie theater, and then take a friend to a movie at a memorial park....
Conference Plans to Help those on the ‘Down Low’
By MIKE SZYMANSKI A one-of-a-kind gathering focusing specifically on the bisexual and pansexual community and their allies, B+ Well: A Wellness Conference for the Bi+ Community, is set for an...
It Never Rains in Southern California — Yeah, Right
As exciting as it sounds to be “Living in Hollywood,” only those of us who live here really know what it's like. One day the neighborhood is blocked off to have every famous star alive dressed...
‘Cabrini’ Is a Masterpiece
A Miraculously Impressive Film About the First American SaintIt is also a timely movie for the world, in a period of racial prejudice, immigration fears and oppressive politics, no story rings truer...
Why Is Ridley Scott’s Film ‘Napoleon’ So Bad?
Perhaps we are just tired of dictators, and we don’t want to sit through 2 hours and 38 minutes (or a day) to deal with another dictator. We tire of little men who have squeaky voices and want to...